Everywhere you go and non-Meru people learn you are Meru, they will greet you with “Muga Vaite Murume”. First, always remind them to remove the V, it’s Baite, because the Meru dictionary doesn’t have V.

Remember our previous stories on the 2 fearsome justice-inducing Meru curses Kithiri and Kûringa Nthenge? Well, those, or fear of them was enough to keep the community members behaved. But there were crimes, because watu ni wale wale.…

I cannot begin to describe death to you. Not because I don’t want to, it’s because there is nothing about death to describe, there is a darkness that surrounds it and something always shifts when we lose someone. We are …

The circumcision of men is not supposed to be discussed in public with children in the vicinity, but hey! How will y’all know if The Ameru doesn’t tell you? We mentioned in passing how the Merus learned about circumcision – …

International Women’s Day was on Thursday. We celebrated our mothers, sisters, daughters, girlfriends and women in general. I got curious. I wanted to know what was the place of the woman in Meru? What was the role of the woman? …

Last time, we spoke about Kithiri, which is one of the most feared oaths among the Meru community. Just like its name, it thirias (finishes) the entire lineage, over some time. Now, there is a worse oath – Kuringa …